Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-11-12
THE NORTHWEST.

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Brief Mention Of News Of General
Interest.
ILLINOIS.
William Gaffney and Samuel Carnahan,
OF Paris, We're killed the other day by the
Cavtng in Of gravel bank
William Wrightman, sixty years of age,
died from neglect and starvationin Chicago
3 few nights ago.
Mrs. Schnanbelt, mother-in-Iaw Of An-
archist SchWab and mother of Rudolph
Schnaubelt. the supposed bomb throwur,
reached Chicago the other day She came
alone from Germany.
Uncle john Vanpiper, of Elizabethtow
died q few days ago, in his II 9TH year.
Seventeen persons left Greenville recent
" for Los Angeles County, Cal The emf
grafton from Bond County to different parts
OF the West has been simply enormous
Al circular recently issued shows that the
total cost of maintaining the State charita-
BILE institutions the past year was $685., 279;
average cost per capita, $165 80.
The superintendent of the Soldiers Or
phan Home at Bloomington complains of
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thorities have over one hundred applica-
tiOns for admission as soon as there is a va
cancy. The number of inmates is $50, of
whom 2O7 are boys and 149 girls
Frank Gernigon, a Chicago barber, tried
to kill his wife recently in fit of jealousy,
but failed He then cut his own throat,
stabbed himself with a pair Of shears, hacked
his head with Ratchet and then jumped
into cistern, but survived, and will get
well
Burglars raided Centralia the other night
They entered half a dozen houses and car
ried off jewelrY and vaIuables
Suit has been brought against Joseph Den
ison, x-treasurer of Mclean County, to re-
cover a shortage of $5, 900 in the school
funds
H Kuns & Son, Of Cerro Gordo, recently
struck a strong vein of natural gas at a
depth of Ito feet
Mrs. Fred Schuett, wife of butcher at
Rock Island, was cremated the other day
while rendering lard Her clothes caught
fire.
The town of Paramount is rejoicing over
the recent discovery of coal there at depth
of 1875 feet.
GoVernor Oglesby has issued proclama-
ton designating Thursday, November "a,
as a day of Thanksgiving.
A camp of the Sons of Veterans was or
ganized at Cerro Gordo the other night.
with twenty charter members Robert e.
Wood is the captain.
IOWA.
The appointment is announced of George
w. Ogilvie to be superintendent of the Des
MONIES Northwestern railroad, known as
the Fonda line, and l. 7. Martin to be SUI
perintendent of the St Louis, Des Moines &
Northern, known as the Boone line.
Farmers near canning factories have real
lied twenty dollars per acre this year for
the sweet corn they raised
The present value of property in Iowa is
estimated at So, 600, 600, 600.
Odd-Fellows have organized 1874 subor-
dinate lodges in the State this year
The house of Charles ibis, butcher at
Sioux City, was entered the other morning
and about 1925 secured in money by the
burglars.
The State Supreme Court recently affirmed
the decision of the lower court in the case
OF the Milwaukee Malt-ExMact Company
against the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
railroad Company. The plaintiff sued TO
compel the railroad company to transport
new beer in this State, the company having
refused to do SO on the ground that it was
Intoxicating liquor The court sustains the
railroad company.
Otto NJ Reute and Arthur Williams, two
runaway Dubuque boys, were recently ar
rested in San Francisco on an order from
their parents. They were in a penitential
state of mind and very anxious to return to
their homes
At the recent session in Keokuk of the
Presbyterian synod resolutions were
adopted condemning the Sunday mail serv-
ice, Sunday railway traffic and Sunday
newspapers
Last July Judge Macomber, of the Six
teenth judicial district, suspended from Of
nee Sheriff L. NJ. Parrott, OF Ida County, for
failure to enforce the order of the court re-
speeding prohibition. The sheriff recently
mad his trial, and the jury returned YER
dict OF guilty on three counts In accord
ance Herewith the sheriff was permanently
removed from Office
Charley Andrews, of Creston, was acct
dentally shot and killed by companion
the other day while hunting.
The town Of Brooks was almost entirely
destroyed by fire few mornings ago.
The State Soldiers Home at Marshalltown
Will be dedicated November 80, and will be
open for inmates December 1.
An incendiary fire at Dubuque the other
night burned /. 200, 900 feet of lumber and
25O,OOO shingles owned by Knapp, Stout g.
Co. Loss, $4,000
WISCONSIN.
At La Crosse a scheme is on foot to organ